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1	The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing--City more books like this by David Lebovitz add to wishlist Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $13.00! \| SVS
2	C'Est La Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris And--Voila!--Becomes Almost French more books like this by Suzy Gershman add to wishlist Suzy Gershman fulfilled a lifelong dream of hers and her husband's by moving to Paris after his death. This is the story of her first year in Paris, as she tries to begin her new life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.28! \| SVS
3	Paris was yesterday, 1925-1939 more books like this by Janet Flanner, Irving Drutman add to wishlist Janet Flanner's incomparable "Letters from Paris," originally published in "The New Yorker," are collected here; they give an unsurpassed view of prewar life in the French capital. see all copies from $2.69! new only from $15.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Hunting and Gathering more books like this by Anna Gavalda, Alison Anderson (Translator) add to wishlist Prize-winning author Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with her epic new novel of intimate lives. The author explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris who may be hopeless apart, but together, they may just be able to face the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| SVS
5	Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light more books like this by David Burke add to wishlist No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their lives, were shaped by this enchanting locale. From natives such as Moliere, Genet, and Anais ... see all copies from $17.45! new only from $17.45! \| SVS
6	The Secret Paris of the 30's more books like this by Brassai add to wishlist With both text and photographs by Brassaï, this memoir documents the after-hours Paris with which he was fascinated all his life--the bars, clubs, bordellos, and opium dens, and the people he encountered in them on his late-night wanderings in the city. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $18.74! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris more books like this by Lucinda Holdforth add to wishlist The author takes a very personal tour through the lives, loves, and losses of Paris's celebrated women. In this travelogue she evokes the city's incarnations from Louis XIV through the French Revolution, two world wars, and the Paris of the new millennium. see all copies from $3.64! new only from $18.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Cafe Life Paris: A Guidebook to the Cafes and Bars of the City of Light more books like this by Christine Graf, Juliana Spear (Photographer) add to wishlist In this lushly illustrated book, Graf explores the City of Lights magnificentarray of cafs--from the one where Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises" to theartist cafs of Montparnasse to cozy nooks. see all copies from $9.99! new only from $9.99!
9	Elegant wits and grand horizontals; a sparkling panorama of "la belle epoque," its gilded society, irrepressible wits and splendid courtesans. more books like this by Cornelia Otis Skinner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.25! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition more books like this by Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway (Illustrator), Patrick Hemingway (Foreword by) add to wishlist Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Plaisir D'Amour: An Erotic Memoir of Paris in the 1920s more books like this by Anne-Marie Villefranche add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.68! \| first editions \| SVS
12	A Writer's Paris: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul more books like this by Dr. Eric Maisel, Danny Gregory (Illustrator), Claudine Hellmuth (Illustrator) add to wishlist The symbolic home for creative people everywhere, Paris has been inspiration for countless artists and writers. In this dynamic book, well-loved author Eric Maisel gives writers the guidance they need to take a literal or figurative soul-renewing artistic sojourn in the city of light, it: Shares with readers how and why to take a creative visit to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Paris in Mind more books like this by Jennifer Lee (Editor) add to wishlist An anthology of Paris memories from such diverse personages as Ada Smith ("Bricktop") the Harlem singer, Ernest Hemingway, John Adams, Saul Bellow, M. F. K. Fisher, Dave Barry, and Edith Wharton. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.90! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Shoe Queen more books like this by Anna Davis add to wishlist Combining the rich historical detail of Philippa Gregorys novels with the sophisticated glamor of Sophie Kinsellas "Shopaholic" books, Daviss book is romantic historical fiction at its finest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Parisians more books like this by Adam Gopnik, Peter Turnley (Photographer) add to wishlist A collection of photographs taken by Peter Turnley, rooted in his 25-year affair with one of the most beautiful cities in the world. This volume invites us to share a Paris which outsiders rarely see. see all copies from $7.90! new only from $11.50! \| first editions
16 view cover	The kill more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist 'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.21! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Sandrine's Paris: A Cultural History of the World's Most Romantic City more books like this by Sandrine Voillet, Georgina Oliver (Editor) add to wishlist Paris. The most romantic city in the world, and a city with an amazingly rich cultural history. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution, from the construction of the Eiffel Tower to Mitterrand's grands projets, Paris has borne witness to extraordinary people and events over the centuries. And who better to explore the French capital's ... see all copies from $21.27! new only from $160.49!
18 view cover	The Beast Within more books like this by Emile Zola, Roger Whitehouse (Translator) add to wishlist "La Bete humaine" (1890), the seventeenth novel in the "Rougon-Macquart" series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $9.25! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Cafes of Paris more books like this by Christine Graf add to wishlist For the visitor, getting to know the cafes is the best way to reach beyond the tourist haunts, to really discover the city, its people, its pace, and its charm. ". . . Christine Graf has done travelers a great favor with this charming guide . . . One afternoon in a cafe gives you more of a sense of the city than visiting a dozen museums".--"Los ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20	A narrow street more books like this by Elliot Paul add to wishlist see all copies from $12.95! first editions
21 view cover	Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture more books like this by Gabriel P Weisberg (Editor), Karal Ann Marling (Foreword by) add to wishlist Located on the fringes of Paris, Montmartre attracted artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Theophile Steinlen and Jules Cheret. By the beginning of the 20th century, the artists in the quarter had begun to create works blurring the boundaries between fine art and popular illustration, the artist and the audience, as well as class and ... see all copies from $6.12! new only from $12.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	From a Paris garret more books like this by Richard Le Gallienne add to wishlist Sy RICHARD LE GALLIENNE fftth an Introduction by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE NEW YORE 4 JJ MCMXXXVI IVES WASHBURN PUBLISHER First printing Lpril Second printing To WILLIAM T. DEWART TO WHOM I OWE THE OPPORTUNITY OF WRITING THE FOLLOWING IMPRESSIONS OF THE PARIS WE BOTH LOVE WITH ADMIRATION AND LONG FRIENDSHIP PREFACE THIS book has no settled plan. It is ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $31.97! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Paris Inside Out: The Insider's Handbook to Life in Paris more books like this by David Applefield add to wishlist Much more than the usual superficial guidebook for tourists, this travel guide takes the visitor deep into Parisian culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
24	Toulouse-Lautrec's Table more books like this by Genevieve Dortignac-Diego, Genevieve Diego-Dortignac, Jean-Bernard Naudin (Photographer) add to wishlist Following the success of the hugely popular Monet's Table and Dining With Proust, the authors presents a gorgeously illustrated gastronomic journey through the sparkling bohemia of Toulous-Lautrec's Montmartre. Full color. Decorated endpapers. Ribbon marker. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $13.09! \| first editions
25 view cover	Across the Bridge more books like this by Mavis Llant, Mavis Gallant add to wishlist These stories, like much of Mavis Gallant's work, take place mostly in Montreal and Paris, and several of them involve the fortunes of one family, the Carettes. The stories include "1933," "Kingdom Come," "The Fenton Child," and eight more, including the title story. All originally appeared in The New Yorker. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.94! \| first editions

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